Excerpt from The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the Game of Chess Keyster, in his account of Turin, in 1749, The late Father Sacchieri of Turin was a remarkable instance of the strength of human understanding, pars licularly that faculty of the soul, we term memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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